linux-kernel - Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

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Message-ID: <a781481a0705221059g31f7eea6na0f23d7d98dc3dc4@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 May 2007 23:29:01 +0530
From:	"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
To:	"Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Roman Zippel" <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"Kumar Gala" <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"Simon Horman" <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>, "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

On 5/22/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > On 5/22/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> >> When I said "The standard and maintainable way (for drivers at least)
> >> is..." I didn't mean the example expression, I meant the *direction* in
> >> which the example was stating dependencies.
> >
> > In that case I wish "the points" you make on threads are relevant to them.
>
> My initial reply was on a patch which removed the A-to-B declaration of
> dependency.

And if you think you can have the "direction of declaration of
dependencies" the way you like it, and also (1) preserve current
"select"-like behaviour, (2) introduce no build issues, and (3) get rid of
the bogus warnings, then: Patches are welcome. (No, suggestions that
don't work, or not fully applicable to the case at hand in this thread will
NOT do).
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